Call for Papers - Computing and Informatics Journal

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Special Issue on:

Business Collaboration Support for micro, small, and medium-sized Enterprises

 

 DEADLINE EXTENSION

Guest Editors: Schahram Dustdar, Dirk Werth, and Christoph Dorn (contact)

Overview 

Over the past decades, industry has been evolving from a vertically integrated environment into an ecosystem of collaborating companies, each providing specialized products, technologies, and services. Tight business collaboration is now a fundamental concern and the key to success in today’s dynamic business environment.  

Although the vast majority of European enterprises are SMEs, enterprise interoperability research and solutions have been successfully employed only in large organizations. Business and communication assistance systems for SMEs face two main challenges. First, SMEs lack resources to invest in full-blown solutions and integrate them in their local IT landscape. Subsequently, SMEs usually employ a set of non-standardized, custom-tailored ERP and communication systems to engage in B2B and B2C relations. Second, SMEs need to remain flexible and responsive quickly to changing market needs. Most interoperability solutions today, however, are rigidly configured and require considerable adaptation efforts to keep up-to-date with business requirements. 

In an environment of loosely-coupled, dynamically adapting SMEs, business collaboration support tools need to remain light-weight, flexible, and automatically adapt to certain degree to changing context.

This special issue focuses on latest research in models, architectures, protocols, and algorithms that support SMEs in inter-organizational collaboration and the corresponding enterprise integration. This call highlights three main research areas: i) exploitation and integration of unstructured and semi-structured communication means such web-interfaces, email, or social media such as twitter or facebook, ii) automated semantic analysis of business artifacts, and iii) people-driven flexible workflow support mechanisms. Particular focus is on research that promises to lower the entry bar for SMEs to employ business collaboration and assistance solutions. This explicitly includes mechanisms, algorithms, and protocols for self-organizing, self-configuring, self-learning, and self-adjusting behavior.

 Topics

• Markup of Communication Data 
• Access to and integration of unstructured communication channels 
• Data Analysis of unstructured/semi-structured business artifacts 
• Message Correlation mechanisms across multiple communication channels 
• Business document evolution 
• Business document negotiation 
• Flexible workflow modeling 
• Ad-hoc Process Tracking Support 
• Process Recommendation support 
• Cross-SME workflow alignment 
• Legacy system integration
  

Important Dates

• Abstract deadline: 15 June 2010 30 June 2010
• Manuscript deadline: 30 June 2010  30 July 2010
• Notification notice: 1 September 2010  14 September 2010
•   Revision deadline: 15 September 2010  30 September 2010
  
• Final Decision notice: 30 September 2010  5 October 2010
• Publication: February 2011 (tentative) 

Submission

Only original articles which have not been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication are considered for review. Extended versions of previous workshop or conference papers might be submitted under the condition that the submission contains substantial new material (this should be indicated at the time of submission). 

Articles should be limited to 17 pages, and submitted as pdf via EasyChair: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcse2010

Layout guidelines are available at:

http://www.cai.sk/CAIinstr.htm 

 

Guest Editors 

Prof. Schahram Dustdar 

Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology 

Argentinierstr 8/184-1, 1040 Vienna, Austria

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Dr. Dirk Werth 

German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) 

Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany

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Dr. Christoph Dorn  (contact for inquiry and correspondence)

Distributed Systems Group, Vienna University of Technology

Argentinierstr 8/184-1, 1040 Vienna, Austria 

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